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ESXi 5.1 Host CPU and Memory Summary From Cli
Can you display the current CPU and memory usage on a host via the Cli. I have noticed sometime the GUI is slow to refresh and wanted to see if the Cli would provide more accurate information faster.
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Thank you hancock.... so you can use Powercli to get the realtime stats of a VM and not the host???? Why is this Oh great one... LOL :-)
So you want the CPU and Memory of the host, not the VMs on a host ?
esxtop on the host (at console or via SSH) or resxtop (via vMA)
or event simplier, a single command
or
esxtop on the host (at console or via SSH) or resxtop (via vMA)
or event simplier, a single command
get-vmhost
or
get-vmhost | fl
Hopefully the following Vmware post will be what you're looking for.
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/500545